Baptistery of San Giovanni
Piazza di San Giovanni, Centro Storico, Florence, 50123, Italy
Dante was baptized here.
Basilica of San Lorenzo
9 Piazza di San Lorenzo, Centro Storico, Florence, 50123, Italy
The Medici family's parish church has an unfinished brick facade, and that's one of the most fascinating things about it.
Basilica of Santa Croce
16 Piazza di Santa Croce, Centro Storico, Florence, 50122, Italy
They call it the Temple of Italian Glories, which sounds grandiose until you realize Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, and Rossini are all buried here, in the same building, steps from each other.
Basilica of Santa Maria Novella
18 Piazza di Santa Maria Novella, Centro Storico, Florence, 50123, Italy
The facade of Santa Maria Novella is a Renaissance geometry lesson in green and white marble, designed by Leon Battista Alberti in the 1450s and so mathematically precise that art historians have spent centuries measuring its proportional ratios.
Boboli Gardens
1 Piazza dei Pitti, Centro Storico, Florence, 50125, Italy
Behind the Palazzo Pitti, the Medici carved an entire hillside into one of the first and most influential formal gardens in European history.
Fountain of Neptune
Piazza della Signoria, 50122 Firenze
Michelangelo looked at this fountain and reportedly said, "Ammannato, Ammannato, what beautiful marble you have ruined.
Galleria dell'Accademia
Via Ricasoli 58/60, 50122 Firenze
The block of marble that became David had been sitting around for 35 years, and nobody wanted it.
Giotto's Bell Tower
Piazza del Duomo, 50122 Firenze
Giotto di Bondone was seventy years old and at the peak of his fame when he was appointed chief architect of the cathedral complex in 1334.
Loggia dei Lanzi
Piazza della Signoria, 50122 Firenze
This is an open-air sculpture museum with no walls, no ticket, and no closing time.
Medici Chapels
6 Piazza di Madonna degli Aldobrandini, Centro Storico, Florence, 50123, Italy
The Medici didn't just run Florence — they made sure everyone would remember them forever.
Museo Nazionale del Bargello
4 Via del Proconsolo, Centro Storico, Florence, 50122, Italy
Before this building held some of the world's finest Renaissance sculptures, it held prisoners.
Museum of San Marco
3 Piazza di San Marco, Centro Storico, Florence, 50121, Italy
This monastery tells two completely opposite stories.
Orsanmichele
1 Via dell'Arte della Lana, Centro Storico, Florence, 50123, Italy
This is the strangest church in Florence, and that's because it wasn't built as a church at all.
Palazzo Pitti
1 Piazza dei Pitti, Centro Storico, Florence, 50125, Italy
Luca Pitti wanted the biggest palace in Florence, and he wanted it bigger than anything the Medici had.
Piazza della Signoria
Piazza della Signoria, 50122 Firenze
This square has seen more political violence per square meter than almost anywhere in Europe.
Piazza Santo Spirito & Oltrarno
Piazza Santo Spirito, Centro Storico, Florence, 50125, Italy
Cross the Arno and Florence changes completely.
Uffizi Gallery
6 Piazzale degli Uffizi, Centro Storico, Florence, 50122, Italy
The name literally means "offices," which is the most spectacularly underselling name in art history.
Vasari Corridor
Centro Storico, Florence, Italy
In 1565, Cosimo I de' Medici wanted to walk from his government offices in the Uffizi to his private residence at the Palazzo Pitti without ever setting foot on the street.
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